Triton XVIII, Lot: 755. Estimate $500. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Bar Kochba Revolt. 132-135 CE. AR Zuz – Denarius (18.5mm, 3.14 g, 7h). Undated issue (year 3, struck 134/5 CE). “Shim’on’” (in Hebrew) around / Flagon with handle; palm frond to right; “For the Freedom of Jerusalem” (in Hebrew) around. Mildenberg 156 (O11/R58’); Meshorer 285 (same dies as illustration); Hendin 1433; Bromberg 192 (same dies); Shoshana I 20457 (same dies); Sofaer 120–1; Spaer 227 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a little off center on obverse. Well struck, with no traces of undertype.